Establishing a High-Tech Cyber Crime Response System

successfully stole the data by inducing trackers to go to a remote intermediate
point.
The Cyber Terror Response Center created a joint investigation team with
related government bodies after the case. The newly created team came up
with the correct analysis on the status and security measures, and distributed
a “back-door vaccine” they had created. As a next step, they promptly
restored the damaged systems, investigated the leaked classified information,
and blocked the access to the intermediate point.
Finally, the joint investigation team detected that the connecting point was in
China and asked for cooperation from the Chinese government via Korea’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. After the investigation, the culprits were
found to be hackers belonging to the People’s Liberation Army.
election irregularities.
In response to these activities, the Cyber Terror Response Center prepared
a 24-hour surveillance structure for the web sites. Also a 24-hour surveillance
system was constructed by committing 600 cyber surveillance agents in order
to block illegal election campaigning on the Internet. At the same time, 112
centers were set up to quickly arrest anyone involved with election irregularities
using PC cafes. As a result, 1066 cases were uncovered and 1152 people,
accounting for 20.8% of the total 5548 election irregularities, were arrested for
cyber election irregularities during the election. Also 3000 web sites that were
related to parties and candidates were under surveillance for 24-hours in order
to regulate false reporting on candidates. This contributed to a cleaner and
fairer election atmosphere and cyber election culture.
3. Clean and fair elections through controlling election
irregularities
Many election irregularities occurred due to the increase in number of
Internet users and diversified participation in politics through the Internet. The
Internet was used as an important method of election campaigning in local
elections (6.13), educational committee election (7.11) and the National
Assembly and by-elections (8.8) in 2002. Moreover, after realizing the
significance of netizens in the 16th presidential election, candidates and voters
actively used the internet in subsequent election campaigns. Especially in
during the 17th National Assembly election (April 15, 2004), the number of
cyber election irregularities showed a rapid increase. Pre-election campaigning
such as leaving feedback online, slandering opposition candidates, or
supporting specific candidates were the most common form of the cyber
4. Securing the safety of the internet through solving cases
and consistent academic research
Other than the facts mentioned above, the cyber terror response center
secured the safety of the internet by solving numerous types of cases. The
details are as follows:
Apprehension of 30 domestic Commercial communication network
Hackers (1997. August)
Apprehension of members of CVC, the biggest domestic computer virus
producer (1998, February)
Apprehension of suspects who hacked into the KAIST network and
leaked confidential data regarding “Woori byul” (1999, March)
Apprehension of suspects who produced a worm virus for the purpose of
cyber terror (2000, February)
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